May 19, 2017, Bloomberg Law

Shaoyu "Andrew" Chen is quoted in a Bloomberg Law article regarding the latest series of announcements from China's Food and Drug Administration on accelerating drug and medical device approvals. According to Chen, “The four documents proposed many critical policies that will bring China much closer to Western countries in the regulatory oversight of drugs and ...

May 11, 2017, PaRR

Bart Van Vooren is quoted in PaRR's "Brexit Club" column regarding the two-part approach to the Brexit negotiation process, following the publication of draft negotiating directives for “phase one” of the talks. According to Van Vooren, there are real legal problems with this two-part approach, regardless of the parties' up-front negotiating positions. One ...

April 20, 2017, Medtech Insight

A post by Charlotte Ryckman on Covington's Inside Medical Device blog is quoted extensively in a Medtech Insight article regarding the impact of the new EU regulatory structure on the classification of borderline and combination products. According to the post, there is not enough clarity in the new medtech regulations around the definitions of the physical ...